Art - American - General

A Bit of the Grand Canyon - Grand Canyon of the Colorado River - Thomas Moran Cross Stitch Pattern Details Design Size: 298w x 360h stitches Types of Stitches: Full stitches only, no half or quarter stitches, no backstitching Level of Difficulty: Advanced Sewn...

Halley's Pictorial Oak Park is a book written by William Halley in 1898. This book is a pictorial history of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. It contains over 200 photographs and illustrations of the town, its buildings, and its residents. The book...

- First book published on the art of Addie Herder- Addie Herder's art works are held in such prestigious collections as the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Neuberger Museum and have been exhibited around the world- Contributes to the historiography on 20th-century...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American...

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraiture that saw him pioneering a new chapter in the history of camerawork and art. With...

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith...

""The Import of Color Symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"" by Joseph F. Eagan is a literary analysis of the use of color symbolism in the medieval poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."" The book explores the significance of colors such...

One of four volumes dealing with the world of comic art, this volume is a comprehensive, international bibliography dealing with animation, caricature, gag, illustrative, magazine, and political cartoons in the United States and Canada. Reflecting the substantial growth of comic art literature in recent...

Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives, and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. The Solomons...

Animal Sculpture is a book written by Walter Winans and published in 1913. The book is a comprehensive guide to the art of sculpting animals, covering a wide range of topics from the anatomy of different animals to the techniques used to create realistic...

50/50 is an eclectic collection of original art and poetry, born from the mind of American beat poet, Donald Fuston.Author: Donald FustonISBN-10: 8223049120ISBN-13: 9798223049128Publisher: B.B. Royal PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2023Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.21d

Is it a graphic novel?Is it an art object?Is it an epic poem?Beyond the Quantum: An Existential Crisis in 5 Acts is none of the above and all of the above. It's 30 mind-expanding illustrations wrapped in a narrative that stares into the abyss...

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, reflecting a wide-ranging and multihued sense of place through images of the land and its people. Quilts,...

Historical Illustration by Paul Delaroche is a book that features a collection of the artist's historical paintings. Paul Delaroche was a prominent French painter of the 19th century who specialized in historical subjects. The book showcases his works that depict various historical events, including...

A lush and in-depth celebration of the clocks of David Rittenhouse, one of eighteenth-century America's greatest scientists and engineersAuthor: Donald L. Fennimore, Frank L. HohmannISBN-10: 0300272952ISBN-13: 9780300272956Publisher: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 9.60w x 1.30d

Winner, Violet Crown Award, Writers' League of Texas, 2008 For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to...

Sea Witch, a book of photography and poetry by Maine native, Kristie Billings - images and words of the sea, nature, folk art, dolls, loss, grief, love, acceptance, rage, music, life.From punk rock to menopause to swimming with seals! A middle-aged story of a...

A passion for life and learning exemplified the short career of one of the best American portrait artists of recent times. Florence McNeil Hardy started from the Kansas plains and, by her college days, was developing into an extraordinarily talented artist, winning an international...

Wildlife artists face a problem in depicting fleeting moments such as facial expressions, postures and flight. They are such fleeting moments that they cannot be fully remembered. This book is designed to overcome these problems and get every feather "just right". Cooper's Hawks inspire...

This book contains 36 photographs of Acorn Woodpeckers and their natural habitat in the highlands of central Arizona. Depicted are facial expressions, postures and flight patterns that are difficult for wildlife artists to depict accurately without the aid of photography. The text describes Acorn...

""A Manual Of Fresco And Encaustic Painting: Containing Ample Instructions For Executing Works Of These Descriptions"" is a book written by William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor in 1843. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the techniques of fresco and encaustic painting, two ancient forms...

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer's raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art. Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea offers here a fresh exploration of Homer and...

Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an expansive, rugged landscape--the vast western half of Texas, far from the dynamics...

Author: Paul LaffoleyISBN-10: 022631541XISBN-13: 9780226315416Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2016Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.30lbsSize: 11.30h x 11.30w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2016Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 77

An original and ambitious approach to understanding the creative achievements of one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Totality offers a deeply researched and thoughtful account of the art of Barnett Newman (1905-1970). While Newman's paintings are widely regarded as...

In 1929, Louise Nevelson was a disappointed housewife with a young son, surrounded by New York's vibrant artistic community but unable to fully engage with it. By 1950, she was an artist living on her own, financially dependent on her family, but she had...

In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well ... the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement that has come to be known...

In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...

The first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades. Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton...

The two-volume publication reflects on the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice initiatives over the last six years, including thematic essays, roundtable discussions, and newly commissioned artworks. An Incomplete Archive of Artistic Activism is a publication in two volumes, documenting the Rubin Foundation's art...

This is the first book on the boundary-pushing practice of the artist, dancer, and educator Suzanne Harris (1940-1979). Harris was a protagonist in key avant-garde projects of the downtown New York City artists' community in the 1970s (the Anarchitecture group, 112 Greene Street, FOOD,...

Since '45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would...

Celebrate the thrill of the open road and the quirkiness and beauty of California, Oregon, and Washington with this illustrated postcard set that showcases West Coast road trips. Inspired by The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas, this fun postcard book contains 32 illustrated...

From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group - and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it - have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully igniting the...

The most in-depth examination of the rich and varied careers of one of California's premier artistic couples Features previously unpublished works and new scholarship Positions the artists within the context of their peers, both in California and nationally Accompanies a major retrospective exhibition at...

A collection of essays that explore the profound and varied responses elicited by Rothko's most compelling creations, plus a facsimile of Rothko's "Scribble Book" and an early sketchbook. "I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom," Mark Rothko (1903-1970) said...

The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence...

First book devoted to world-renowned stained-glass artist Rowan LeCompte, best known for his work in Washington National Cathedral Stunning and richly illustrated, with over 150 windows in over 50 churches and buildings throughout the US, LeCompte was one of the world's most sought-after masters...

Glorious Penobscot Bay, on the coast of Maine, with its quaint mainland towns, bustling tourist centers, and island fishing villages, stands as the backdrop of daydreams. The bay's sheer beauty has attracted generation after generation of artists to its shores. For Art of Penobscot...

This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative...

E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz (1898-1984) could be called a "favorite son" among Texas artists working in the twentieth century. Schiwetz ranks among the state's best-known early artists, having left behind an important body of iconic Texas imagery produced over a prodigious career spanning some...

This publication contains the revised and expanded proceedings of the 2021 symposium. The volume begins with the keynote address by Michael Grauer, which explores the lives of a New England family who moved to Texas in the late 1800s; the essay demonstrates how that...

Longlisted for the National Book Award - A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - Winner of the New York City Book Award - Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award - Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography...

Precisionism is generally regarded as an artistic style that does not indulge in social or political themes, being committed instead to aestheticism. Addressing the role of human beings under increased automation and mechanization, Andrea Diederichs includes the social dimension of the machine age in...

This is a sumptuous catalog of regional landscape paintings and the talented, living artists who create them, including Robert J. Barber, Denise Dumont, Michael Godfrey, Hai-Ou Hou, Abigail McBride, and Sam Robinson. It is packed with over 400 eye-catching color reproductions of work by...

This book showcases Julian Schnabel's diverse body of work from the past three decades and celebrates the scale and virtuosic materiality of his oeuvre. Julian Schnabel is one of the most important and groundbreaking artists working today. Since his breakthrough in the late 1970's,...

This magnificent publication presents surveys the vital role of women in the development of Abstract Expressionism by looking at more than 50 paintings, collages, and sculptures all accompanied by carefully selected quotes from the artists themselves.The dominant movement of the New York and San...

Ted Keller proudly presents his series of oil and watercolor paintings featuring Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico scenes.Author: Ted KellerISBN-10: 8811529832ISBN-13: 9798811529834Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2022Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them--Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and Blue Movie--seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of American cinema. In the first comprehensive...

In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the Parisian movement galvanized an emerging...